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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pullan, n. (? ME puleyn (1313–14), poleyne (1373, c1440), a kind of ladder for lowering casks into a cellar (here ? the hold of a ship), OF po(u)lain id. (1280 in Godef.), med. L. polenus (1198), pulinus (1236), pullanus (1241).) —1508 Treas. Acc. IV 46.
For vjmjcxl fut of sarris pullan and plank to the said schip and xiiij pece of barrotis; ilk fut xij deneris
